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Tulsa World
December 3, 2006
By BILL SHERMAN World Religion Writer

Alamo backer loses re-election

The town of Fouke, Ark., population under 1,000, has a new mayor after an election that some viewed as a referendum on the ministry of Tony Alamo.

Incumbent Mayor Cecil Smith, an Alamo supporter, lost to Terry Purvis, 216-148.

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Tusla World
December 3, 2006
by Bill Sherman

Storied evangelist still preaching
Tony Alamo continues to stir controversy from the Arkansas town he calls home.

A hidden corpse, a UFO sighting, an unpublished Beatles album worth millions, a global conspiracy involving popes and presidents, prison time for tax evasion.

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Los Angeles Times, USA
July 13, 1993
By Sam Enriquez

Evangelist’s empire has crumbled and he faces child abuse and tax charges. He says it’s all a plot to stop his spreading the Gospel.

Hounded by government agents, faced with financial ruin and slandered by some of the very souls he labored to save, controversial evangelist and accused tax dodger Tony Alamo says Satan has unleashed a fierce counterattack on his soul-saving enterprises.

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Texarkana Gazette
October 17, 2006

Alamo can vote in election

Tony Alamo has served his time in federal prison and with a certificate of discharge, he could vote in the Nov. 7 general election, Miller County Prosecutor Brent Haltom said.

Alamo, the founder of Tony Alamo Ministries in Fouke, is a convicted felon and recently registered to vote in the upcoming Nov. 7 general election.

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Texarkana Gazette
October 12, 2006

Convicted felons can’t vote in state of Arkansas

The founder of the Tony Alamo Ministries, who recently registered to vote in Miller County, may not get the opportunity because he is a convicted felon.

In Arkansas, convicted felons cannot vote, according to Arkansas
Secretary of State Charlie Daniels.

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Texarkana Gazette
Linked from Rick Ross website
October 6, 2006
by Jim Williamson

Fouke voter registration numbers up
Tony Alamo says he encourages his members to vote

Fouke, Arkasas — With a four-way mayor’s race and four contested city council seats, the number of registered voters in Fouke has increased, according to election officials.

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Texarkana Gazette
September 20, 2006

Letters to the Editor

TO THE EDITOR:

The streets surrounding Alamo’s “church” were being shut off. Everyone that had tried to enter had been met by armed guards. They have been stopped, questioned, tag numbers ran, told to leave and intimidated.
When the guards (RG Security) have encountered someone who knows their civil rights and refuses to answer them, they get upset. Not until all the fed-up citizens started really complaining to the mayor were the guards told to back off.

The citizens’ incidents with Alamo followers and the guards have been reported to the county sheriff, unlike Alamo’s rantings & ravings. Alamo said (by phone) that first he had the guards to protect the church, then it was for his black members, then his schoolchildren. What he needs to say is that he’s scared someone will come into his compound and discover what’s really going on in there. Alamo fears for himself and that’s all, as he has for years. His gifts to the city have bought him some time.
That is what Alamo does.

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Texarkana Gazette
Linked from Rick Ross website
September 15, 2006
by Jim Williamson

Fouke Council says issue settled
Alamo alarms account for large turnout

Fouke, Arkansas.—At the end of the Fouke City Council meeting Thursday night, a couple of members of the audience asked if the streets near the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries were closed. A council member said it was “all rumors” and the streets are open.

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Texarkana Gazette
September 14, 2006

Religious group, city come to terms over security of street

Tony Alamo Ministries is, to say the least, a controversial group. They were recently at the center of even more controversy in their adopted hometown of Fouke, Ark.

After a bullet was fired at their church, Alamo Ministries hired a security firm to guard church property.

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Texarkana Gazette
September 13, 2006
By Jim Williamson

Residents suspicious of restriction onto street

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Texarkana Gazette
Linked from Rick Ross website
September 13, 2006
By Jim Williamson

Surrounding the Alamo Ministries –
Residents suspicious of restriction onto street

Fouke, Arkansas.—After a bullet hit one of the church windows, Tony Alamo Ministries hired a security company to watch for possible troublemakers.

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The Cabin-Net
July 17, 2006

Fouke mayor being ‘neighborly’ with town’s fire truck

FOUKE (AP) – The mayor of the southwest Arkansas town of Fouke says
using the fire truck to water the lawn of a religious ministry was
simply being neighborly.

“If you all don’t want to continue the program, let me know about it,
but I say that when it gets to where you can’t help your neighbors, then
just send men home,” Mayor Cecil Smith told Fouke City Council members
recently.

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New York Times
Published: June 12, 1994

Jury Convicts Evengelist of Tax Evasion

The evangelist Tony Alamo has been convicted of tax evasion and jailed after prosecutors said that he was a risk to flee as well as a polygamist who had preyed on married women and girls in his congregation.

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by Andrea Moore Emmett

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The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped

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Cults in America
by James R Lewis

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Since the early 1970s, alternative religious movements known as cults have been the focus of ever-increasing controversy in America. This reference handbook compares present-day cults to events in earlier American history, while primarily dealing with cults as a contemporary phenomenon. The key issue of mind control is covered in detail, as are deprogramming and the anti-cult movement. Overviews of the most controversial churches, and biographies of their leaders, are prominent features of this book. Legislative efforts and court decisions, particularly those surrounding the issue of religious liberty, are covered in detail. The volume features a directory of organizations in both the United States and Europe, a selected bibliography, print and nonprint resources, a chronology with the dates of religious events in American history, and coverage of events such as the Solar Temple and Heaven’s Gate incidents. Alamo Christian Foundation (Music Square Church) identified as a cult on pages 66 and 67 of the book.

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